Thieves Take 76000 From Stroudsburg Bank
Four gunmen robbed First National Bank employees in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania taking a pouch with 76000 in currency. They fled in a black sedan across the Delaware River bridge into New Jersey after disarming a guard and a teller. The money was insured and in various denominations.
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Stroudsburg
First National Bank
Ralph Rheinfels
Lewis Heiney
About & A. M
Federal Reserve Bank
Philadelphia
Heiney
Delaware River
New Jersey
Easton
Lipton Iced Tea Quote and Jokes
A playful note celebrates Lipton Iced Tea as a refreshing drink priced at half a cent per glass. A butcher quip follows about brides, contrasting those who don’t know meat cuts with those who buy chops.
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Lipton
Works Named As Assistant C. C. Manager
Fountain Works Jr. appointed assistant manager of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce effective tomorrow. Rex Baxter, new head, announced the move after Carl Hinton left to work with the Panhandle Water Authority. Works is from an Amarillo pioneer family and is son of attorney F P Works Sr. He has led Western Brick Company branches with offices at 320 East Fifth Avenue.
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Fountain Works, Jr
Amarillo
War updates show Allied actions in Tobruk Derna and Dakar defenses
The story notes muted British assaults on Tobruk and RAF raids on Derna. A Vichy statement describes elaborate precautions for Dakar and other African colonies to reassure the United States that France won’t invite German forces to defend its bases.
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Tobruk Front
Royal Air Force
Derna
Vichy
Dakar
United States
France
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertises Digestive Relief
An old advertisement urges daily bile flow via Carter's Little Liver Pills to prevent digestion problems. It claims pills restore bile flow, ease gas, constipation, and general malaise, promoting a 10¢ to 25¢ package with directed use.
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Carter
Courthouse Records: Property Transfers and Divorces Listed
A long list of warranty deeds transfers involving G. A. Hines Carson Lake O&G Corp and multiple grantees, plus district court divorces for Bean and Sears and Wright cases. Also includes numerous motor vehicle registrations and notices of property conveyances across Belmont Park SJH Washington Center and other local locales.
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G. A. Hines
Carson Lake O&g Corp
G&s Cc
Dorothy Rountree Armour
Seine Slade Paylor
Plemons
Jeannette C. Pickens
Burgree
F. P. Works
Burgess
Benjamin Finegold
Kathryn Covington
Loyd M. Ledbetter
R. M. Dalrymple
Saline Nunn Gooch Etvir
Mabel Nichols
Belmont Park
L. Ray Lemons
W. L. Scott
I. L. Lake
W. K. Fray
Washington Center
H. W. Miner, Jr
Raynard Junell
Harmon F. Fansler
Forest Hill
E. D. Lamb
Melvin D. Tebo
G. H. Cash
Cecile A. Cash
Ethel Hanson
Della Hanson
Holland
Lillie Crouch
Cecile Dawson
Crouch
J. A. Thomas
L. O. Hasley
C. H. Hazlewood
H. A. Tanner
R. F. Thomson, Jr
H. T. White
Bolton
Rob
R. E. Logan
Pauline P. Master
Eakle
J. C. Burkhalter
Et Ux
Wm. Conway
CC Terrace
Miles Realty Co
J. H. Procter
Bivins Estate
John D. Dodson
Alva Dodson
T&k
Cleo Griffith
Garland G. Griffith
Ridgemere
R. D. Houck
Cline
Wolflin
L. J. Vogel
Edward J. Dee
East
San Jacinto Heights
J. L. Nunn
J. W. Clay
James Bean
Fishie Bean
Louise Sears
O. E. Sears
Charlsie Wright
L. D. Wright
Actress Paulette Goddard Delays Kiss Prize
Actress Paulette Goddard contracted influenza delaying the 45 second kiss she planned to bestow on H. B. Clifford, a Hollywood restaurant owner, who won the top prize in Paramount Pictures pots and pans derby to aid the national defense drive. Mrs. R. Andrews and son Michael donated aluminum toward a tour of the studio and the set of Reap the Wild Wind. Paramount reported 4151 pieces of scrap aluminum totaling a ton collected.
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Hollywood
Paulette Goddard
H. B. Clifford
Paramount Pictures
Miss Goddard
Paramount
A Dillar a Dollar Same Old Holler Ideas Contest
Your ideas editor seeks fresh submissions to Globe News. Readers are urged to send viable ideas on any subject with a one dollar reward for the best idea each day. The editor notes no mail has arrived recently and calls for renewed contributions.
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Globe News
Japan Gears for War Across Asia and Siberia
Reports say Japan plans offensives in southwest Asia and Siberia if needed and may risk South Pacific naval clashes to secure raw materials especially oil. Akiyama notes a minor border clash near Manchukuo. US moves two heavy cruisers to Brisbane after pledging aid to Soviet Russia, while Tokyo faces economic strain from rains and scrap iron shortages.
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Japan
Southwest Asia
Siberia
Russia
South Pacific
United States
Soviet Russia
Pacific
Shanghai
U.P
Tokyo
Retherford Rites To Be Wednesday
Funeral services for Martin Van Buren Retherford 69 year old farmer will be held at 4 p m Wednesday at the N S Griggs chapel with Rev E P Cook of Glenwood Baptist Church officiating Burial will be in Liano Cemetery Pallbearers are J A Bush Lex Ray W C Marrs Ray Walls Low Roads and J C Sullivan Survivors include wife Connie two daughters Mrs W M Tutor of San Gabriel California and Mrs A F Roth of Denver Colo and three stepsons Clyde Crump Chicago C C Crump Oakland Calif and E A Crump Houston Texas
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Martin van Buren
Retherford
N. S. Griggs Chapel
E. P. Cook
Glenwood Baptist Church
Liano Cemetery
J. A. Bush
Lex Ray
W. C. Marrs
Ray Walls
Low Roads
J. C. Sullivan
Connie Retherford
W. M. Tutor
San Gabriel
Calif
A. F. Roth
Denver
Colo
Clyde Crump
Chicago
C. C. Crump
Oakland
E. A. Crump
Houston
Italian Paper Calls Off Short Pants Movement
Rome reports Telegrapho of Leghorn declares the short pants campaign finished. The paper blasts grown men in short pants near monuments and austere settings and urges a return to long pants to avoid undermining authority.
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Rome
U.P
Galeazzo Ciano
Telegrafo
Leghorn
New Bishop of Amarillo Active Civic Worker
The Very Reverend Laurence Jus s FitzSimon named Bishop of the Amarillo Catholic Diocese is an active civic and social worker. He previously served as Chancellor of the ArchDiocese of San Antonio and rector of St James Church Seguine Texas. Born in 1895 in San Antonio, he was a WWI naval chaplain and led the North Sea veterans group. Consecration and installation dates not set.
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Laurence Jusus FitzSimon
Amarillo
Arch
San Antonio
James T. Lockwood
St. James Church
Seguine
Tex
Seguine and Guadalupe
Robert FE. Lucey
New Legion Chief To Be Installed
Hanson post of the American Legion will install a new commander tonight at 1800 Harrison Street. Bill Gilstrap will succeed John Boyce, with Erwin Ochsner as first vice commander and Howard Blackburn as finance officer among others. Charlie Maisel will serve as installing officer and a watermelon feast will follow.
Japan taps ocean for scrap iron supply
New York reports Japan, cut off from American scrap iron, is salvaging shipwrecks under its control. Salvage firms target up to 15,000 tons, including the $8 million liner President Hoover grounded near Hoishito Island on November 12, 1937, with about 7,000 tons already recovered.
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New York
Japan
President Hoover
Hoishito Island
Famosa
Hospitals Quiet Zones Urged Around Amarillo Hospitals
Police Chief Sid Harper urged motorists to observe quiet zones around Amarillo hospitals after complaints of honking to summon visitors. He said drivers have been driving to hospital entrances and honking to attract people.
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Sid Harper
Amarillo
Soldiers Use Brains To Capture Tanks
At Fort Jackson a non combatant battalion of the 105th ordnance company used smoke pots and tear gas to halt three advancing enemy tanks. Captain Carter Reeves ordered the tactic when rifles were helpless. The tanks became stuck or steered off course as crews were captured or sent away.
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105Th Ordnance Company
Carter Reeves
Ordnance Boys
Sweetened Polecat Causes Hasty Evacuation at Amarillo City Hall
Amarillo city hall faced a morning evacuation as parks superintendent Chester Fitz led a chaotic retreat with a skunk. The animal, one of three pets named Oola Alley-Oop and Old Guzz, was placed in the water department cashier’s office before staff persuaded Fitz to leave.
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Amarillo
Chester Fitz
Forester
Oola
Water Department
Chester
Seattle Defense Plant Closes for Brief Wedding
Romance halted national defense work at a Seattle quilt factory as Trene Van Zandt, 22, a seamstress 12 hours daily seven days a week sewing sleeping bags for soldiers in Alaska, married James E. Sayradder, 25, a navy yard worker, under sleeping bag canopies.
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Seattle
National Defense
Trene van Zandt
Alaska
James E. Sayradder
Navy Yard
Lightning sparks music at tavern juke box in Ill
Mischievous lightning struck Oscar Leiber's tavern in Millstadt during a storm. It melted the outdoor coin slot that powers a juke box and set records playing, waking Leiber who feared intruders before finding the source of the music.
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Millstadt
Ill
Oscar Leiber
Leiber
Priority Rating Is Given Tea For Civilian Need
New York August 5 Tea labeled a civilian necessity and given high priority to ensure continued import Director Benjamin Wood said the Office of Price Administration notified him after the Tea Association warned that rubber and tin imports could crowd cargo space About 15 000 000 to 20 000 000 pounds would be imported in the six months starting September 1.
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New York
Benjamin Wood
The
Tea Bureau
Wood
Office of Price Administration
Civilian Supply
Tea Association
Man Catches Snake by Using Mouse as Lure
Medford Oregon report says Forest Lookout Geore Fleischman could not reach a rattlesnake under his shed with a rake. He baited a trap with cheese to catch a mouse, then used a mouse on a fish hook. The snake rose to the lure and Fleischman reeled it in.
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Medford
Ore
Geore Fleischman
Fleischman
Immaculately groomed executive gives shoes to beggar
Julian Price of Greensboro, president of a large insurance firm, entered a Columbia office meeting with shoes off to help a shabbily dressed man outside who asked for better footwear. Price handed over his own shoes and the recipient, visibly surprised, offered no thanks. Altitudes of 22,400 feet were reported for gliders.
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Columbia
8. C
Julian Price
Greensboro
N. C
Price
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Allen Tyler
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Margaret Eichbauer
C. S. Gilkin
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J. M. Webb
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T. E. Garner
R. O. Whisen
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